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Department of English Courses

Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Department of English offers undergraduate and graduate courses covering topics ranging from the Contemporary American Novel to Topics in Shakespeare to Queer Cinema.

See the Summer/Fall 2024 Course Descriptions (PDF)

Undergraduate Courses

  • ENGL 0900: Introduction to Writing (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 1500: The Process of Composition (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 1900: Advanced Strategies Of Rhetoric and Research (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 1920: Advanced Writing for Professionals (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 1940: Advanced Writing (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 1950: Advanced Writing about Urban and Social (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 2020: Introduction to Literary Study (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 2250: Conflict, Social Justice and Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 2350: Faith, Doubt and Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 2400: Introduction to Drama (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 2450: Nature, Ecology and Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 2550: Gender, Identity and Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 2600: Introduction to Short Fiction (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 2650: Technology, Media and Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 2750: Film, Culture and Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 2850: Nation, Identity and Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3030: The Writer as Reader (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3050: Creative Writing: Poetry (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3060: Creative Writing: Fiction (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3070: Creative Writing: Drama (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3080: Creative Writing: Non-Fiction (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3090: Creative Writing: Poetry and Translation (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3110: American Short Story (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3130: American Fiction (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3140: Poetry (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3180: Film (0-3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3190: Literature of Ridicule and Satire (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3200: Detective Fiction (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3210: Fantasy and Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3220: Film and Literature (1-3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3230: Journalism and Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3240: Reading the Female Bildungsroman (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3241: Young Adult Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3250: British Literary Traditions to 1800 (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3260: British Literary Traditions after 1800 (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3270: American Literary Traditions to 1865 (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3280: America Literatures after 1865 (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3290: American Literary Traditions: Special Topics (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3300: Eastern European Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3310: World Literary Traditions I (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3320: World Literary Traditions II (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3330: World Literary Traditions III (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3340: Modern Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3350: Selected Major British Authors (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3353: Scottish Literature: Rediscovering the Voice (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3360: Contemporary Irish Writing (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3370: The Oxford Christians: Tolkien, Lewis and W (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3380: The Classics and Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3390: Literature and Film of World War II (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3400: War in Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3470: Introduction to Shakespeare (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3490: 19th Century British Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3491: Public Health and the Victorian Home (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3492: The Golden Age of Children's Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3500: Literature of the Postcolonial World (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3510: African American Literary Traditions I: Before (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3520: African American Literary Traditions II: After (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3530: African American Literary Tradition: Special Topics (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3540: Literature of the African Diaspora (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3550: Native American Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3560: Ethnic American Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3570: Writing Sex in the Middle Ages (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3590: Nature and Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3600: Women in Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3610: The City and Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3620: Special Topics in Spirituality and Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3630: Disaster Narratives (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3640: British Culture and Travel (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3650: Science Fiction (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3660: LGBTQ Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3700: The Bible and Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3730: Introduction to Medical Humanities, Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3740: Medicine and Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3750: Writing about Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3760: Topics in Rhetorical Analysis (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3850: Persuasive Writing (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3854: Living Writing (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3860: Public Rhetoric (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3870: Technical Writing (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3880: Writing Personal Narratives and Memoirs (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 3890: Writing Consulting: Forms, Theories, Practice (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4000: Business and Professional Writing (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4010: New Media Writing (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4035: Histories of Persuasion
  • ENGL 4040: Special Topics in Rhetoric (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4050: Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4060: Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4070: The Craft of Creative Writing (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4100: History of the English Language (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4110: Introduction to Linguistics (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4120: Writing with Style
  • ENGL 4130: Literary Theory (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4150: Ethnic and Race Studies (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4170: American Film History (1-3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4173: Irish Cinema (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4176: Queer Cinema: History, Aesthetics and Activism (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4180: Film Theory (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4190: Topics in Religion and Culture (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4240: Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4250: Chaucer: Troilus and Shorter Works (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4290: Topics in Medieval Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4300: Age of Elizabeth (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4310: Early Shakespeare (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4320: Shakespeare: Special Topics (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4330: Renaissance Drama (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4340: Falling in Love in Renaissance (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4350: 17th Century Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4360: Milton (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4370: Renaissance Literature and Rhetoric (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4380: Early Women Writers (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4390: Special Topics in 16th and 17th Century Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4450: Special Topics in Restoration and 18th Century (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4490: 18th and 19th Century Women Writers (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4500: The Age of Romanticism (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4530: Medicine, Mind and Victorian Fiction (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4531: Mental Illness in Victorian Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4550: Victorian Poetry (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4580: Major Victorian Authors and Movements (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4590: Special Topics: 19th Century Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4600: Topics in British Literature 1900-1945 (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4605: Major Modernist Writers and Movements (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4608: 20th-Century British Poetry (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4610: Female/Expatriate Modernism (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4615: Queer Modernism (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4620: British Postmodernism (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4630: Nationalism and Irish Cultural Revival (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4640: Irish Modernism (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4650: Contemporary Irish Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4670: Contemporary Postcolonial Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4680: Major Post-Colonial Writers(3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4690: Special Topics in 20th/21st Century British (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4700: American Literary Tradition to 1865 (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4715: American Postmodernisms (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4720: Contemporary American Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4740: 19th Century American Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4760: 20th Century American Literature(3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4770: 20th Century American Poetry (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4780: Recent American Poetry (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4790: American Drama (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4800: American Short Story (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4810: Major American Authors (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4830: Post-1900 African American Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4880: The Machine Age in American Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4890: Special Topics: American Literature and Culture (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4900: Interdisciplinary Studies (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4940: Senior Inquiry Seminar (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4950: Senior Residency (0 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 4980: Advanced Independent Study (1-3 Credit Hours)

Graduate Courses

  • ENGL 5000: Methods of Literary Research (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 5010: Teaching Writing (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 5035: Histories of Persuasion
  • ENGL 5040: Problems in Rhetoric (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 5100: Literary Criticism: Aristotle (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 5110: Literary Theory (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 5120: Perspectives in Medieval Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 5130: Perspectives in Renaissance Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 5140: Perspectives in Restoration/British (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 5150: Perspectives: 19th Cent British Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 5160: Perspectives: 20th Cent British Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 5170: Perspectives in American Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 5180: Perspectives in Contemporary Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 5710: American Fiction 1900-1950 (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 5800: Studies in Contemporary Culture (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 5899: Professionalization Practicum (0 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6040: Rhetoric, Theory Discourse and Pedagogy (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6100: Studies in Literary Theory (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6150: Genre Studies (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6170: Literary Themes (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6190: Interdisciplinary Studies (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6250: Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6260: Studies in Chaucer (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6270: Middle English Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6300: 16th Century Non-Dramatic Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6310: Renaissance Drama (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6320: Shakespeare (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6350: 17th Century Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6360: 17th Century Prose (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6390: Topics: Renaissance Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6400: Restoration Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6410: Restoration and 18th Century Poetry (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6420: Restoration and 18th Century Prose Fiction (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6430: Restoration and 18th Century Drama (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6490: Special Topics (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6500: Romanticism (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6510: 19th Century Prose Non-Fiction (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6520: Victorian Poetry (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6530: 19th Century Novel (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6590: Topics in 19th Century English Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6600: Studies in Modernism (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6610: 20th Century Fiction (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6620: 20th Century Poetry (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6630: 20th Century Drama (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6650: 20th Century Postcolonial Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6690: Topics in Literature of the 20th Century (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6700: Early American Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6710: 19th Century American Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6720: 19th-Century American Poetry (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6730: 19th Century American Modernism (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6740: Studies in American Modernism (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6760: 20th Century American Fiction (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6770: 20th Century American Poetry (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6780: 20th Century American Drama (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6790: Topics: 20th Century American Literature (3 Credit Hours)
  • ENGL 6850: Studies in Comparative Literature (3 Credit Hours)